"Dictatorship, by whatever name, is founded on the doctrine that the individual amounts to nothing; that the State is the only one that counts; and that men and women and children were put on earth solely for the purpose of serving the state."

-- Harry S. Truman

#Children Quotes #Men Quotes #Names Quotes

“If you should look for this place after a handful of lifetimes: Perhaps of my planted forest a few May stand yet, dark-leaved Australians or the coast cypress, haggard With storm-drift; but fire and the axe are devils. Look for foundations of sea-worn granite, my fingers had the art To make stone love stone, you will find some remnant.”
“I was always a slow reader, from the very beginning. I remember in first grade our teacher divided us into groups, and I was definitely in the slow group. She didn't call it that, but everybody in the class knew. But I still loved reading. Being a slow reader affected my grades in school, but it didn't affect my love for reading. I still loved going to the library, and I still loved reading books.”

Source : Source: www.hbook.com
“Opening to the sacred, we transform our vision of ourselves.”

Source : Stephanie Dowrick (2011). “Seeking the Sacred: Transforming Our View of Ourselves and One Another”, p.89, ReadHowYouWant.com
“The only menace is inertia.”
“Dreams are not real; but when you are inside a dream, it is real to you.”
“Some say that the age of chivalry is past, that the spirit of romance is dead. The age of chivalry is never past, so long as there is a wrong left unredressed on earth.”
“Isn't man but a blossom taken by wind, and only the mountains and the sea and the stars and this land of the gods everlasting?”
“Poverty and slavery are thus only two forms ofthe same thing, the essence of which is that a man's energies are expended for the most part not on his own behalf but on that of others.”

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